Trump: “Where’s my Roy Cohn” Another of His Latest WTF Historical Moments

Trump and Roy Cohn sometime after they met in 1973 

(The same year Trump hired Cohn)

Trump recently screamed: “Where’s my Roy Cohn?”

Surely a WTF moment for the history books for sure – very enlightening article.

Worth keeping in mind this from the late Roy Cohn, the brass-knuckles lawyer in New York (died in 1986) and who once schooled a young Donald J. Trump in the black arts of chicanery and corruption and told him just like he told Joe McCarthy decades ago with this.

A classic example (Cohn’s advice to Trump): “Always hit back… never say you’re sorry… never admit you’re wrong.”

More on Roy Cohn here vis-à-vis Donald J. Trump – very interesting stuff.

A better and more comprehensive picture of Trump and his character and personality, that was not real apparent in the 2016 campaign, but more so now, is sadly now in full view.

Their history – from Trump the braggart:

After McCarthy’s censure and eventual departure from politics, Cohn became a prominent defense lawyer-slash-socialite, representing mafia dons, Catholic cardinals, and Andy Warhol in courtroom battles ranging from the fabulous to the murderous. It was during this stage in his life — when Cohn was cavorting with Barbara Walters, Walter Winchell, and a rotating cast of handsome younger men — that in 1973 he came across a blonde bridge-and-tunnel arriviste named Donald Trump at Le Club, a members-only discothèque on the Upper East Side.

“Its membership included some of the most successful men and the most beautiful women in the world,” Trump would later write of the venue in The Art of the Deal. “It turned out to be a great move for me, socially and professionally. I met a lot of beautiful young single women, and I went out almost every night.” 

He also met Cohn.

“If you need someone to get vicious toward an opponent, you get Roy,” Trump told the Associated Press after hiring Cohn nearly on-the-spot in 1973. “People will drop a suit just by getting a letter with Roy’s name at the bottom.”

Cohn — considered “the polestar of human evil,” in the words of Pulitzer-winning playwright Tony Kushner — became a close Trump companion, fighting seemingly impossible legal battles on Trump’s behalf with his trademark litigious viciousness.

After the federal government sued the Trump Management Corp. for alleged housing discriminating against African Americans, Trump filed a Cohn-orchestrated countersuit for $100 million.

The judge dismissed the suit and accused the pair of “wasting time and paper,” but the friendship was cemented. Cohn began fighting Trump’s battles in the press as well as the courtroom, calling himself “not only Donald’s lawyer, but also one of his close friends.” Cohn would introduce Trump to his high-society friends as the kid who was “going to own New York someday.” He even MC’ed Trump’s birthday party at Studio 54.

That close friendship made a mark on Trump.

Not much else to add to this post, but as usual, thanks for stopping by.